Easter Activities For The Classroom

If you need Easter activities for the classroom, there are many different activities that you could choose. You may like to have the kids create Easter crafts but there are also many other educational Easter activities that are suitable for school. Some of these involve reading, writing and math so the learning doesn’t have to stop while the kids have some Easter fun!

Easter Riddle Match

The children can be involved in preparing this Easter activity for the classroom. They can start by finding about 10-15 Easter riddles. Once they have found them, each riddle is written on a separate card and each answer is written on a separate card. Use the cards to play a game with 2 -4 players. It is played like the game Memory. The cards are spread out face down on a table. Each player has a trun at choosing two cards and turning them over. If they have a matching riddle and answer they get to keep the pair and have another turn. The winner will be the player who has the most pairs when all of the cards have been matched.

Easter Egg Jumble

This is an Easter activity for the classroom that helps kids to practice math. Start by cutting out or drawing several large egg shapes. On each egg write the numbers and signs from a mathematical equation putting them in a random order. The children have to unjumble the numbers and signs to create a true equation. You can use this to practice addition, subtraction, multiplication or division equations. If 4, 3, x, =, 9 and 6 are on an egg, these could be unjumbled to make 4 x 9 = 36.

Easter Sentence Jumble

To create this Easter activity for the classroom you will start with a few Easter sentences. The children can be involved in creating the sentences or they can be created by an adult. The sentences could be about Easter eggs, the Easter Bunny or something that children might do at Easter. To play Sentence Jumble you run the words together and then break the letters up into groups of three, four or five letters. The children have to identify the sentence from the jumbled letters and write it correctly. You can start with the following one.

thec hild renh unte dforth eea stereg gsth atth eeas terbu nnyh adhi dden

Easter Word Find

One of the simplest Easter activities for the classroom is an Easter puzzle Word Find. Write the words ‘Easter Bunny’ for the children to see, then challenge them to find as many words as possible that use only the in Easter Bunny. They could start with words like tree, beat, sun etc. The winner will be the one who creates the longest list of words. Other words that you could use for this game are 'Easter Egg' or 'Chocolate'.

Easter Hangman

The spelling game of Hangman can also be given an Easter twist by using a bunny diagram instead of a Hangman diagram. Choose a bunny picture with about 10 – 14 parts. Play the game in the usual way using Easter words like, chocolate, candy, flowers, basket, chicks, bonnet, parade, decorate, April, search, Sunday, tulips or jellybeans.

As you can see there is a wide variety of Easter activities for the classroom that you can use to entertain and educate children this Easter. This Easter you can do more than just craft activities. Instead have a go at some Easter word puzzles and Easter math puzzles.

By: Terese Evans

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